In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations face the constant challenge of optimizing their cloud infrastructure to achieve cost savings, enhance performance and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Sedai Inc., an autonomous cloud management platform, offers a solution to these pressing concerns. Founded by Suresh Mathew (pictured), the company’s chief executive officer, Sedai aims to revolutionize the way businesses manage and scale modern applications in a complex cloud environment.

“The number one is innovation velocity,” Mathew said, discussing what Sedai’s platform offers. “The second aspect is your compliance. With Sedai, everything is logged, everything is now autonomous. Everything is by your rules that you have specified there. So, now things are super compliant for your platform.”

Mathew spoke with Lisa Martin, industry analyst for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during a CUBE Conversation in advance of the “Analytics and Cost Optimization” AWS Startup Showcase on June 8. They discussed Sedai’s key features and the transformative impact its platform has on cost optimization, performance and customer experience. (* Disclosure below.)

The birth of Sedai: Solving cloud management challenges

Drawing from his experience at PayPal Holdings Inc., Mathew discussed the catalyst behind starting Sedai. As the manager of the largest OpenStack fleet globally, he witnessed the struggle of balancing reliability, availability and efficiency. Recognizing the lack of existing solutions, Mathew and his team embarked on developing an autonomous platform, leading to significant results, including 2 million autonomous remediations executed annually at PayPal.

“One thing we saw is it is extremely hard to keep the reliability up or availability up and efficiency at the same level,” Mathew said. “We started developing an autonomous platform, and the results were illuminating.”

The rise of microservices, such as Kubernetes and serverless, has introduced complexity and challenges in managing and scaling modern applications. Issues arise from the increasing number of services and release velocity, Mathew explained.

Sedai’s approach focuses on enabling engineering teams to establish guardrails while automating the execution of high-level tasks. By eliminating the need for constant manual intervention, Sedai empowers businesses to streamline their cloud management processes effectively.

Unlocking cost optimization and performance efficiency

Sedai’s autonomous approach delivers substantial benefits to organizations, particularly in cost optimization and performance efficiency, according to Mathew. Three critical areas where Sedai makes a difference are in right-sizing applications, deploying them under the right infrastructure and optimizing purchase plans. By automating these processes, the company enables businesses to achieve significant cost savings while maintaining optimal performance levels.

Sedai’s impact extends beyond cost and performance, Mathew stressed, especially when it comes to customer experience and innovation velocity. Its autonomous system ensures that businesses can innovate rapidly by mitigating risks associated with releases. The company’s Release Intelligence module evaluates releases against established models, helping engineering teams deliver new features to customers faster while preventing incidents and optimizing resource allocation.

“It is not about an if; it’s about a when,” Mathew stated. “We are not alone thinking that way. Gartner released an article at the start of the year called ‘Predicts for 2023 Optimization.’ The only vendor out there for modern workload was Sedai.”

Under the leadership of Mathew, Sedai is reshaping cloud management with its autonomous approach. By addressing critical challenges in cost optimization, performance efficiency, customer experience and innovation velocity, Sedai aims to empower organizations to thrive in the dynamic landscape of cloud computing. But given the current market dynamics, without innovation velocity, it’s hard to stay relevant. And it’s extremely important to innovate fast, Mathew added.

“If you translate that from a business to engineering aspect, it gets to a similar term called release velocity … with release, the biggest problem is 75% of issues are caused by changes, which means release is probably the primary cause for this unavailability or instability in production,” he said. “There is a whole industry handling it. So, there are incident management solutions, root cost analysis solution. Sedai will try to really not get you into that incident.”

Here’s the complete video interview, and be sure to check out SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s upcoming “Analytics and Cost Optimization” AWS Startup Showcase event on June 8:

(* Disclosure: Sedai Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Sedai nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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